What's a research guide? It's a website that pulls together a diversity of resources on a single subject. The resources highlighted in our guides span the full breadth of the SVA Library collections ...

Born a slave on a Virginia plantation in 1826, Nathaniel Booth escaped at age 17 and sought freedom in the North. He arrived in Lowell around 1844 and opened a barbershop on Dutton Street. When ...

State archives and libraries are the go-to genealogical source for records relating to births, deaths, marriages, the military, courts, land, maps, taxes, state institutions, agencies, state censuses, ...

The Brandeis Library provides access to a wealth of information resources in many formats. As much as possible, scholarly content is transitioned from print to electronic form, enabling more powerful ...

Welcome to your library, where you can search for books, articles, videos, and more. You can also reserve study rooms, get online research help, or meet with a librarian. We're here to support you!

The situation: You've just been given your first 15-page college research paper assignment. Your professor wants you to use books and scholarly journals in writing your paper, and doesn't want you to ...

Find journal articles and other research literature in areas such as Environment and Ecology, Business and Economics, Environmental Engineering, Diversity, Design, Social Justice and Law.

The Brandeis Library's Research Excellence Prize recognizes students who apply sophisticated information literacy skills to the selection, evaluation and synthesis of sources for a research project.